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Historical Fiction July 2018 *Read 3 Books & Submit titles to the Reference Desk by Aug. 6
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The Locksmith's Daughter
by Karen Brooks
Locksmith's daughter Mallory Bright, who is just as good at cracking locks as her father, is drawn into the dangerous world of Queen Elizabeth's spymaster and begins to have second thoughts when she sees the brutal side of espionage.
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Eagle & Crane
by Suzanne Rindell
Two daredevil pilots from rival families confront unsettling family secrets in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks, the internment of Japanese citizens and a mysterious plane crash.
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The Dying of the Light
by Robert Goolrick
Forced into a marriage of convenience to save her family's estate, Diana Cooke, coming of age just after World War I, sacrifices everything, including love, to become the wife of a man she cannot abide, until fate intervenes.
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The King's Witch
by Tracy Borman
Attending the death of Elizabeth I and forced to navigate the decadence of James I's witch-hunting court, a talented herbalist becomes a pawn in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. By the author of The Private Lives of the Tudors.
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Caught in Time
by Julie McElwain
A still-stranded FBI agent Kendra Donovan, assisted by Alec and Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, investigate the murder of a Yorkshire mill owner against the backdrop of Industrial Revolution rivalries and the victim's unsavory life.
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The Romanov Empress
by C. W. Gortner
Marrying the Romanov heir, nineteen-year-old Danish princess Minnie becomes empress of Russia and treads a perilous path of compromise in a beloved but resistance-torn country where her son becomes the last tsar.
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A Question of Trust
by Penny Vincenzi
Tom Knelston, a charismatic politician in 1950s London, pursues an affair with a sultry fashion model before his child's illness forces him to rethink his principles, career, and family bonds.
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Mary B
by Katherine J. Chen
The awkward middle child of five, Mary Bennet, who loses herself in the secret pleasures of reading and writing in nineteenth-century England, soon discovers that her fictional creations are no match for the very real scandal, tragedy, and romance that come into her life.
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Greyfriars House
by Emma Fraser
On a remote Scottish island sits Greyfriars House, a house haunted by unspoken words and family mysteries. But once it was a happy and comforting place and in the summer of 1939, family and friends gather to forget their fears about the impending war. Nine-year-old Olivia watches the grown-ups with fascination, particularly her mother and her two aunts, the three daughters of the family who own the island. Then Olivia sees something she isn't meant to and when the truth comes out it reverberates through the generations.
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